Hook



Oct. 27 1925.

H. SCHOEEEL HOOK Filed Aug. 2, 1924 a M m 9 INVENTO Patented Oct. 27, 1925.

UNITED STATES HENRY SCHOEBEL, OF HEMPSTEAD GARDENS, NEW YORK.

HOOK.

Application filed August 2. 1924. Serial No. 729,762.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that T, Hnnnr SoHoEBnL, a citizen of the Republic of Czechoslovakia, residing at Hempstead Gardens, in the coun ty of Nassau and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in eye-cooperating hooks and more particularly to hooks of this kind which are mainly composed of wire.

Among the objects of the present invention it is aimed to provide a hook composed of wire having loops formed at the receiving end of the hook to accommodate tastening means such as stitches, rivets, and the like, and which has also formed therein fastening means such for instance as a loop at the closed end thereof to accommodate fastening means whereby the hook can be properly and securely attached at both ends.

The invention also contemplates the formation of a hook froma single piece of wire, in which one free end thereof is secured between the main shanks of the hook and a loop formed in the wire adjacent to the free end of the wire disposed between such shanks so as to protect the wearer against contact with such free end.

It is still further aimed in the present invention to provide a hook composed of a single piece of wire in which the rough free ends of the wire are bent over to abut against portions of the wire, so as to permit making of such hooks without finishing oif the free ends of the wire and yet insure the user of the same against contact with such rough free ends.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a hook composed of a single piece of wire having loops for receiving stitches, rivets, or the like at both ends thereof, which hook may assume the standard form in use today with respect to the turns of the wire, with the exception that at one end thereof'anextra loop is provided.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a hook composed of one piece of wire in which the main parts of the forming dies today in use may be used with but slight alteration therein, to produce a hook having stitch receiving or rivet receiving loops at both ends thereof. V

Another object of thepresent invention is to provide a combination wire hook and riveting member in which the hook is provided with three rivet receiving loops and the riveting member composed of one piece,

and provided with three rivets formed in the three loops of the hook.

These and other features, capabilities and advantages of the invention will appear from the subjoined detail description of one specific embodiment thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a hook mem-v ber;

Fig. 2 is a similar plan view with the hook portion broken off;

3 is a side elevation of the hook member Fig. 4: is a rear view of the hook member;

i Fig. 5 is a plan view of the hook member secured to a piece of cloth by a riveting member;

Fig. 6 is a rear view of the hook member a piece of cloth by a riveting then back adjacent to the shank member 2 to form a short straight shank portion 4 also extending in the same plane with the shank member 2 and loop 3 and then continuing up through the bent portion 5 away from the plane of the shank 2 and loop 3 to form the hook portionby continuing into the shank member 6 which connects with the shank member 7 byjthe loop 8 disposed in a plane parallel to the plane of the loop 3 and shank 2. The wire 1 then bends down again through the bent portion 9 into the loop 10 disposed in the plane with the loop 3 and shank 2, the portion 9 bending over and adjacent to the free end 11 of the shank 2 to inclose the same and thus guard the same against contact with the person of the wearer. The wire 1 from the loop 10 then continues into. the elongated shank portion 12 adjacent and paral-lel to the shank portion 2 and d sposed in the same plane With the shank portion 2 and loop 3 and terminating in the loop 13 disposed adjacent to the loop 3 and in the same plane therewith. The free end lt of the .loop 13 which forms the other free end of the wire 1 extends toward, and abuts against, the shank 12 thereby to be enclosed and to protect the person of the wearer from contact with the same.

In the manufacture of these hooks, in order to maintain the cost of the same at 'a .minimum, the wire portions are cut off leaving the same rough and sometimes even a little jagged. If these free ends 11 and 1% were exposed and not protected against contact with the person of the wearer, obviously there would be danger of the same catching in the dress of the wearer or in the person of the wearer and causing damage and injury. With the loop 10 bent down as illustrated-in Figs. 1 and 2 to enclose the free end 11 and the free end 14: bent-over "to ab'u-t'against the shank 12, obviously the free ends 11 and 1.4 are securely enclosed and guarded.

Of course the main object of the present invention 'is to provide the loop 10 whereby, a convenient fastening-means receiving portion is provided at the closed end ofthe hook by means of one and the same piece of wire. YVith the wire hooks heretofore in use, merely the loops l3 and 3 were provided and consequently the ingenuity of the dressmaker was frequently called upon to sew down the closed end of the hook. Frequently this was done by means of stitches sewed around the closed ends "of the hook, and in some cases by providing a section of cloth "or ribbon extending in the hook, and sewed to the material upon which the hook is secured thus locking or anchoring the hook "down in place.

With 'the loop 10 formed {and positioned it is in the present instance, provision is also made whereby the standard bending tools in use today for forming wire hooks without the loop 10, can be used with slight alteration, It will be seen that the bending tool for the shank 2, loop 3, shank 4, bent portion 5, and-shank portions "6 and 7 of the hook member will remain unaltered, and that only the bending tool or cam for bending or inserting "the loop 10 is required, that in addition to the foregoing the bending tool "or cam for forming the shank 12am loop 13'1nay remain as before. p

In Fig. 7, there is shown "a rivet plate member 18; having rivet members '15 and 16 struck up therefrom. As "shown in Figs. '5 and '6 the wire hook portion is there shown secured in place on a piece of material by a riveting 'memberwith the rivet portion 15 extending through theloop portion '10 and the rivet portions 16 extending through the leap per-tr s e and, 1 3. By i -tan er this riveting plate" 18', Stifibli -"may be dispensed with, and the "wire hook "member secured to the material with the material disposed between the riveting plate 18 and the wire hook portion, as shown.

the hook ortionto securely anchor the eye against accidental displacement.

It is obvious that various changes and 'mo'difications'lnay be made in the details of 'constructlon without departing from the general spirit of'the invention as set forth inthe appended claims.

"I claim:

1. The combination with a wire hook member, of a one-piece riveting plate extending the full length and width of the hook member and the hook member having a plurality oiloops disposed at the open end of the hook and at the closed end of the hook, and the riveting plate "having rivet portions struck u therefrom to engage said loops to -secure the hook members in place.

2. In a device of the-class described coinposedof a single piece of'wir'e, the numbination with an intermediate sh'ankportio'n, of a short longitudinal shank portion disposed adjacent said intermediate shank portion, an elongated longitudinal shank portion extending the entire length of the ho'ok member in a straight line and disposed adjacent said intermediate shank portion, a hook portion ex'ten'd'ing'up from said longitudinal shank portions, a loop portion connecting fsaid elongated "shank portion with "said hook portion, a second loop portion connecting said short shank portion with said intermediate shank portion, and a third loop portion formed at one end ofsaid "elongated shank portion the "three shank portions and three loops being "disposed in'the fsameplane.

3. In a device of the class described earnposed of a single piece of wire,tl1ecbinbination with an intermediate shank pertion,

of a short longitudinal shank portion disposed adjacent to said intermediate shank portion, an elongated longitudinal shank portion extending the entire length of the hook member 'in'a straight line and disposed adjacent to said intermediate shank portion, a hook portion extending up from said longitudinal shank portions, a. loop portion eonnecting said elongated shank portion with said hook portion and disposed adjacent "to the end of the closed end of hook, a second loop portion connecting said short shank portion with said intermediate shank portion and disposed adjacent to "one side of the open end of the hook, and a third loop portion formed at one end of said elongated shank portion and disp'osedto the other side of the open endoi the hookthe t re'Sh iink parasi e the three loops being are-passe in the sear-e plane.

4. In a device of the class described composed of a single piece of wire, the combination with an intermediate shank portion, of a short longitudinal shank portion disposed adjacent to said intermediate shank portion, an elongated longitudinal shank portion extending the entire length of the hook member in a straight line and disposed adjacent to said intermediate shank portion, a hook portion extending up from said longitudinal shank portions, a closed end loop portion connecting said elongated shank portion with said hook portion, a second loop portion connecting said short shank portion with said intermediate shank portion, and a third loo portion formed at one end of said elongate shank portion the wire extending from one of its free ends which opposes the elongated shank portion to form the third loop portion, then turning to the right to form the elongated shank portion, then again turning to the right to form the closed end loop portion, then turning to the left to close the closed end loop portion, then turning upward to form the hook portion, then turning downward and backward to form the short longitudinal shank portion, then turning to the right to form the second loop portion, and then passing between the two longitudinal shank portions to form the intermediate shank portion and terminating adjacent'to the closed end loop portion.

HENRY SCHOEBEL. 

